greetings and salutations

hello hello hello, I thought I'd start a proper blog as an excuse to avoid homework. I guess this will be a place for stupidly-cliched-teenage-rants-about-nothing because lets face it: I am a stupidly-cliched-teenager who rants about nothing. For example; right now I am lying on my bedroom floor with my cat listening to ABBA's greatest hits on vinyl, which I can almost guarantee has been the position of every person ever to live ever (okay maybe that is a slight exaggeration). Well, it could be worse - I could be listening to The Smiths.. which I feel embarrassed to admit that I actually do that all of the time. I am desperately trying to avoid the stereotype of pretentious mopey adolescent and failing miserably. Although I am proud to admit that I'm a fan of Glee who loves 70s/80s disco and is a former pink Croc wearer - and I guess the stereotypical pretentious Morrissey worshiper would vomit if I was slotted into the same category of human as them.


What am I even talking about? surely our society are far too sophisticated to give in to small-minded representations that the media has so kindly provided us with... yeah no, we're not there yet. It seems like everyone, myself included, is desperately trying to slot themselves into a certain category. Reinforcing their type by conforming to Amazon's advice of "if you bought this item, then you'll love this!" and a lot of the time, they're right. Sometimes I feel like contacting them to say "NO, AMAZON - just because I bought The Maccabees new album IT DOES NOT MEAN that I would LOVE Foster The People!!!!" I'm sure it could all just be innocent, maybe I'm just looking to deeply into things. I guess this is the core of ~~the troubles ov adolescence ~~ because this is the time in which you "find yourself" - I've been obsessed with trying to "be myself" ever since I watched an episode of The Simpsons when I was like 10, and Lisa was stressing it's importance (and can we all just take a moment to appreciate the MAGNIFICENCE of Lisa Simpson?!!?!! she is actually the greatest thing EVER!!!)


Also, Angela Chase ponders a lot on being ones self: when she says "People alway say you should be yourself, like yourself is this definite thing, like a toaster or something. Like you can know what it is even. But every so often I'll have like, a moment, when just being myself in my life, right where I am, is like, enough." When I first watched My So-Called Life last year I felt like it confirmed everything I'd ever thought in SUCH AN AWESOME WAY - it was kind of like that scene in West Side Story when Maria and Tony first see each other from across the room, and everything else fades away and it is only the two of them.... yeah, that was me and My So-Called Life. It is such a perfect show with such perfectly realistically flawed characters. She even says "like" about 134 times in everything she says, she is A REAL HUMAN who doesn't come out with beautifully construed sentences!!! 


On that note, lets conclude this post with some Angela Chase philosophy: 
"It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it's even you?"

thank you Angela Chase, thank you.